F9 Beta release announcement
Mark
markg85 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 21:14:20 UTC 2008
2008/3/25, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>:
> Ah, spring... when a young penguin's fancy lightly turns to thoughts
> of... Beta testing! Yes, spring has sprung, and so has the Beta release
> of Fedora 9!
>
> The Beta release is the point at which we really want and need the wider
> community's help with testing. Beta is a point of much greater
> stability in Fedora's development branch, but some fixes continue to
> occur to improve usability, performance, and stability. This release is
> great for early adopters and Linux enthusiasts! The Fedora 9 Beta boots
> on the majority of systems, and gives you an idea of how the final
> Fedora 9 will look and feel. Most importantly, we absolutely need
> community assistance to check features and provide feedback and bug
> reports, to help ensure that Fedora 9 is our best release ever.
>
> Some highlights of Fedora 9 Beta:
>
> * GNOME 2.22, with new features like a helpful world time clock, better
> file system performance, security improvements, power management at the
> login screen, the ability to dynamically configure displays, better
> Bluetooth integration, improved podcast support, and many other
> enhancements
> * KDE 4.0.2, which includes a brand new desktop and panel with many new
> concepts, integrated desktop search, a brand new visual style called
> Oxygen, a new multimedia API called Phonon, and a new hardware
> integration framework called Solid -- all integrated by Fedora's KDE SIG
> * Firefox 3 Beta 5, featuring a native look and feel, desktop
> integration, the new Places that replaces bookmarks, and a reworked
> address bar
i personally don't see the new firefox look and feel as a improvement
> * Support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions during install
and ext4? wasn't that gonna be in as well?
> * Support for creating and installing to encrypted filesystems
> * PackageKit, a cross-distribution package management solution with a
> complete yum backend, designed to unify different distributions'
> software management with the latest technologies
This has my attention! could this eventualy replace the yum and
apt-get (and ebuild etc) we know today?
> * Kernel 2.6.25-rc5
>
> And numerous other improvements and enhancements.
>
> The full release notes are available at:
> http://fedoraproject.org/f9-beta-relnotes
>
> Getting it:
> ===========
>
> The Beta release is available through the following download methods:
> * (recommended) BitTorrent, an efficient and easy distributed
> file-sharing system
> * Jigdo, an alternative system that reduces download size in some
> situations, or for people who can't use BitTorrent
> * direct download from a mirror location near you
>
> To download, visit:
> http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease
>
>
> More Information:
> =================
>
> For more information regarding the Beta release, please visit the
> release notes page:
> http://fedoraproject.org/f9-beta-relnotes
For the rest:
Congratulations to the entire fedora team + copmmunity on the Fedora 9
beta release! I'm downloading it right now to test it out. I hope i
can get my Nvidia drivers working.
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